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Many an important anti-physical-culturist waiting for a doctor's reprieve at 15 Holyoke Street has muttered a demand for an explanation of the acute M.D. shortage. The explanation is a simple one and it comes from the south Pacific battle-front...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Medical Unit Now On Australian Battlefront | 10/27/1942 | See Source »

...Olympic Games in Germany, that Hess had planned to approach him because before the war he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship. The Duke's younger brother, also a flier, had worked in Nazi labor camps, married the strong-through-joy Hon. Prunella Stack, physical culturist and Nazi favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The World and Hess | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Steve Stanko wanted to be an interior decorator but his father, a Hungarian immigrant, put him to work in an iron foundry close by their home in Perth Amboy, N. J. There two years ago Physical Culturist Bob Hoffman noticed brawny young Stanko, offered him a job in his barbell foundry at York, Pa., promised to make him the strongest man in the world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bar Bellmen | 7/17/1939 | See Source »

...Varel Mensendieck, a sculptress and a coloratura soprano with an M. D. degree from the University of Zurich, set up a school for exercises at Potsdam. By-&-by she had similar schools all over Germany and in Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, The Netherlands. She became the best known physical culturist south of Sweden. Eventually she returned to the U. S. and. though her vogue has been quieter here, her system of functional exercises is being used at eminently respectable schools like Finch (Manhattan J, Greenwich Academy, Stoneleigh-Prospect Hill (Greenfield. Mass.), Laurel (Cleveland), Ogontz (Ogontz, Pa.) and at Yale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Posture Lady | 4/5/1937 | See Source »

...Frank Nathan Daniel Buchman asleep in his room at the Hotel Gymnastik. Once awake, he lay abed for an hour "receiving the orders of the day from God." Per orders, Frank Buchman breakfasted with his jolly disciples, later made his way to the private stadium of Physical Culturist Niels Bukh for what he had expected to be the Oxford Group's GREATEST HOUSEPARTY. However, bad weather cut the attendance down below a measly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Men, Masters & Messiahs | 4/20/1936 | See Source »

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